The wallpaper represents her relationship. She is so blindly trying to escape her marriage. “ I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store. “(2.70) When the wallpaper is on, she sees it, smells it everywhere. She knows how toxic it is but he can't get out- connecting to her relationship because her relationship was intoxicating, yet addictive and she had been